عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
JC423 .C644 1994
JC423
.
C644
1994
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
094563658X
(Number (ISBN
9780945636588
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b794579
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
A theory of republican character and related essays /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Wendell John Coats, Jr.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Associated University Presses,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©1994.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
166 pages ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"American Democracy and the Punitive Use of Force - Requiem for the McNamara Model," the third piece in this volume, is relevant not merely for its general policy considerations (which are still meaningful after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Gulf War), but because it views the use of armed force in the context of the preservation of a system of political authority - a republican affinity - rather than primarily as an "economic" exercise in the infliction of increments of "pain."
Text of Note
Coats makes his argument for the importance of such republican generalists in even an advanced, specialized democracy - necessary if political balance is to be maintained.
Text of Note
It is important here because Oakeshott's account of the liberal arts ideal of nurturing habits of comprehensive, individual judgment is typical of what Coats calls the "republican character."
Text of Note
Taking his bearings from Aristotle's distinction in the Politics between the lowest form of mixed regime - a polity or republic - and the highest form of democracy, Wendell John Coats, Jr., attempts to establish a distinction within popular government between two kinds of characters or personalities, the republican and the democratic. The hallmark of the republican character is the practice of considering proposed laws and policies from the standpoint of their likely effects on both one's private interests and the general, authoritative context (i.e., a constitution) within which they occur and by which they are made possible.
Text of Note
The collection's fourth essay is entitled "Drama and Democracy." It attempts to show how the pedagogic use of drama in the college classroom can help to keep political ways of understanding alive and respectable - in the face of the onslaught of scientific modes of explanation.
Text of Note
The second essay, "Some Correspondences between Oakeshott's 'Civil Condition' and the Republican Tradition," appeared in a volume of The Political Science Reviewer devoted to the thought of the twentieth-century English political theorist Michael Oakeshott (1901-90). It is included in this collection for its exploration of convergences between republicanism and classical liberalism - and for its treatment of divergences of republicanism and classical liberalism from advanced democracy.
Text of Note
This volume is a collection of four essays and two shorter pieces - all linked to the theme of the title essay. That title piece, "A Theory of Republican Character - for a Democratic Age," is a study in political theory.
Text of Note
Two shorter pieces are included as appendices. The first, a public address entitled "Two Views of Aristotle's Politics" is included here for its opposition to the claim of some historians that Aristotle can hardly be of political relevance today. The second appendix is a review of Michael Oakeshott's The Voice of Liberal Learning, edited by Timothy Fuller.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Theory of republican character and related essays.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Democracy.
Political science-- History.
Republicanism.
Republics.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Democracy.
Demokratie.
Demokratie.
Political science.
Republicanism.
Republics.
Republikanismus.
Republikanismus.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
321
.
8
Edition
20
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
JC423
Book number
.
C644
1994
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
3
,
6
System Code
ssgn
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Coats, Wendell John.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201207074341.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
